She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful smile. She reached out with her small hand, and I gripped her tiny fingers as I let go of the pain and sank deeper into the lake.

Erica Sehyun Song
About This Quote

The mind has a strange way of bringing back the past when it needs something. The mind will revisit events, people, places, even smells in search of that thing that it needs to make itself feel whole. This poem is about how the mind always seems to take you back to the present using the memory of a past time. It is also an example of how memory can be used in poetry to tell a story.

Source: Thorns In The Shadow

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